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Article: Pregnant at 17, oxbridge degree at 23: a teenage single mother who maDE IT.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2002
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As the Government tackles teenage pregnancy, Tilly Bagshawe reveals how with the support of her parents and teachers she became a City highflier IWILL never forget my father's reaction the moment I told him I was pregnant.
It was April, 1991. I was 17 years old, and two months away from sitting my A-levels - the culmination of a private education on which my parents had spent a small fortune. After a traumatic afternoon with the baby's tearful 19-year-old father, I was too emotionally exhausted to go home to my parents in Sussex and face the music. So I decided to break the news by phone from my aunt's house in Earl's Court.
"Dad," I got right to the ...